Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism
by Twitchell, James B
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0231115180
- ISBN 13
- 9780231115186
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 310 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names and advertising jingles. Twichell takes a witty and unflinching look at our commercial culture, and concludes that consumerism holds us together as a society." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Introduction; 1. Attention Kmart Shoppers: A Brief Consumer Guide to Consumption, Commercialism, and the Meaning of Stuff; 2. The Language of Things: Advertising and the Rhetoric of Salvation; 3. But First, a Lot of Words from Our Sponsor: How We Hear What Things Have to Say; 4. Boxed In: The Power of Packaging; 5. The Branding of Experience: Or Why the Label Has Moved from Inside the Collar to Outside on the Shirt; 6. The Function of Fashion in an Age of Individualism; 7. Enough Talk: Let's Shop!; 8. The Liberating Role of Consumption.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124341
- Title
- Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism
- Author
- Twitchell, James B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0231115180
- ISBN 13
- 9780231115186
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1999
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- Collectible
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Design / Fashion & Costume; Design / Advertising;
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